Bernsden v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Webb v. Lungstrum (1978), Collins v. Meeker (1967)
2 district · 28 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on James v. Grigsby · Bateman v. Roller · Ferguson v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Pettigrew v. Lewis & Willard · Atkinson v. Darling
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If in ruling on a motion for a new trial, the trial court stated the ground on which the new trial was granted, and that ground is one which the supreme court can deal with as readily as the trial court, the supreme court will examine the question to see whether the reason given, as a matter of law, justified the ruling made.” (Syl. ]f 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.